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Landscape with a Woman at a Well, from Vedute
Canaletto (Italian, 1697-1768)
1735/44
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 13.5 × 20.7 cm (5 3/8 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 16.6 × 23.7 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
Though Canaletto's style varies from print to print, it is distinguished by a wide range of tonal variation and a delicate, even poetic, rendering of light.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
